This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 8, 2026, a Thursday at dawn when the practice was shorter and more condensed, yet carried a particular intensity — that of a teaching which, in just a few sentences, reorganized our whole perception of life.
It is barely 5:46 a.m. when the first welcomes appear in the chat. ✨ The sound of a bell rises, and already something begins to settle. The in-breath grows long, and letting go takes hold, vertebra by vertebra. There you are, standing on your mat, blindfolded, not yet knowing that at the heart of this shorter session one of the most foundational realizations of Yoga Anatman is about to unfold: the Theory of the Creation of Reality. 🌱
But before getting there, there is the path. Hands rising, thumbs hooked behind, the inner masseur tending to the back of the neck, the cow and the cat, the dragon, the frog. And above all, this sentence slipped in like a secret: “yoga is between me and me”. 🕊️
The Mirror, the Echo, and the Video Game of Life
Have you ever wondered why some days seem to answer your every impulse, while others resist each step you take? 💫 This morning, Alexandre opened a door onto that question. A simple door, almost childlike, and yet dizzying.
Life does not happen to you. Life answers you. Every gesture, every word, every silence you offer is a signal sent into the great cosmic video game. And what comes back — emotions, sensations, encounters, echoes — is simply the reflection of what you have expressed, consciously or not. 🦋
So this morning, we learned to observe. No longer to endure, no longer to judge, but to watch the echoes with the tenderness of a child discovering a mirror.
The Morning Teaching
This Thursday, the teaching arrived by surprise, in the middle of a posture of surrender to life. Arms open wide, palms toward the sky. And suddenly, this sentence whispered like a cosmic secret: “Life, I love you”. 💖
Yet behind this very simple mantra lay an immense transmission: the Theory of the Creation of Reality. Alexandre named it so with a smile, the way you name something obvious that you have always known without ever putting it into words.
Here is the principle. You are in a video game. A sacred, cosmic, infinitely subtle video game. And in this game, you do not merely receive — you emit. Every word, every gesture, every action, every non-action is a signal sent into the fabric of the living. 🌟
And life answers you. It sends echoes back to you. These echoes take the form of emotions, bodily sensations, thoughts, encounters, synchronicities. Everything that happens to you is a return of what you have expressed. 🦋
“Everything I express today — not just my words, but my gestures, my actions, what I do as much as what I don’t do — all of it will create my reality.”
So how do we go about it? There is only one instruction, and it is sacred: observe. Observe the echoes without judgment. Observe what life understands of your expression. Observe how others react, how the universe responds. 🕊️
And at the heart of this observation, a decisive mantra: “I choose and I decide my life”. You are no longer the victim of circumstances. You are the conscious creator of your experience. And every morning, you can choose what you will send out into the world.
This Thursday’s morning elixir fits into a phrase heard at dawn: “thank you for this beautiful video game”. 🙏 A radical gratitude. A joyful acceptance. Not resignation, but a celebration of the game itself. Because if it is a game, then we can play it with love, with daring, with creativity.
Then comes the second layer of the teaching, the one that touches on identity. Alexandre reminds us that we are, at the origin, unidentified universal consciousness. Before the age of six months, before anyone told us our name, we were the whole. Then identification came — “your name is Sébastien” — and with it, separation, comparison, the wounds of the soul. 💫
“In our practice, we go into the absolute to take care of the relative.”
That is the key. Yoga is not an escape from the world. It is a dive into the Non-Self, into the absolute, so that we can return to the relative with more love, more consciousness, more presence. The absolute nourishes the relative. Silence nourishes speech. Surrender nourishes action. ✨
And so, throughout the day that is opening before you, you can remind yourself at every moment: I express, I observe the echoes, and I choose.
Realizations During Yoga Anatman
🎁 This 10-minute excerpt of the session's realizations (in French) is offered to you by ANATMAN TV.
From the very first seconds, the sound of the bell cuts through the air and something settles within you. ✨ You breathe in, you breathe out, and you hear the instruction that will return like a common thread throughout the session: “I let go, I let go, I let go.” A gentle, almost hypnotic litany that asks nothing more of you than to stop holding on.
You feel the arches of your feet. Your feet taking root. Your jaws that you gently massage, your cheeks that you awaken. Then comes the first great stretch: hands rising, rising, rising, thumbs hooked behind, and this suspension — “I am suspended by my hands” — that draws the whole spine up toward the sky. 🌟
And then the first mantra falls into place, self-evident: “I surrender to my inner yogi”. You repeat it. The blindfold is over your eyes. There is nothing more to see, no outside gaze. There is only you and you. 🙏
“I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender.”
Then the descent, chest resting on the thighs, hands toward the floor, the right angle, complete release. The rise back up, vertebra by vertebra, millimeter by millimeter, in a consciousness of the body relearning its uprightness. You feel your feet clearly. You feel the earth. You are here. 🌿
Next comes the inner massage. The right arm rises, then the right hand comes down onto the back of the neck, the back of the skull, the cervical spine. And the mantra unfolds: “I surrender to my inner masseur”. Alexandre reminds you that tensions in the skull are often invisible, forgotten, buried. The inner masseur knows every one of them. You only have to let it do its work. 💞
And then, in a breath, another phrase joins in: “I surrender to peace”. Gratitude for being at peace. A deep release. As if the whole weight of the night were finally being laid down.
On the other side, the left arm rises, the body leans to the right, the heel lifts, in a slow dance in which the whole body stretches. Then the neck circles — “I have paint on my chin, I’m drawing a circle” — and laughter bubbles up in the chat as Isabelle and Valérie join the round. 🦋 Alexandre announces a summit meeting next week: Cathy, Isabelle and Valérie all together. The inner child is overjoyed. “It’s a summer camp for inner children.”
The circles change direction. Surrender to the cosmic clown sets in. Perhaps you are laughing too, behind your blindfold. And that is sacred. 💫
Then comes the territorial OM. Feet like roots, a bubble around you, your territory. The sound rises from the chest, vibrant, to train the throat chakra. The arms open wide, palms toward the sky, and you feel this sacred geometry: verticality and horizontality meeting exactly at the level of the heart chakra. 💖 As if by chance.
And then comes the heart of the morning teaching, the one that brings silent tears behind the blindfold. The Theory of the Creation of Reality. You are in a video game. You express — words, gestures, actions, and even what you don’t do — and the universe sends echoes back to you. You observe. You learn to read the signals.
“I choose and I decide my life. I express all that I am. And I observe the echoes.”
Alexandre insists: “Life, I love you. Thank you for this beautiful video game.” 🙏 And you understand, in your body, that life is not an ordeal to be endured but an active creation, a dance of echoes.
Hands on the lower back, in the posture of the Five Tibetans, you offer yourself a gesture of loving care. Then the rise back up. And a new, essential mantra: “I welcome all emotions, I welcome all the signals of the universe”. An emotion is an echo. A bodily sensation is an echo. A thought is an echo. 🌱
Then the great realization: you are unidentified universal consciousness. Just as before six months of age, before anyone told you your name, before you identified with this “thing”. You are the whole. And it is from this identification that all comparisons, all the wounds of the soul, are born. 🕊️
“In our practice, we go into the absolute to take care of the relative.”
Then the descent into the right angle, and this decisive reminder: “there is nothing to succeed at — it’s about what does this do to me?” Everything is within. Yoga is not a performance. It is an encounter. And one last mantra seals it all: “I release in love everything that would have me compare myself, everything that would have me succeed at something in yoga”. 💞
The pelvic hula hoop arrives like a celebration of the body. The circles grow wider, change direction, and Alexandre reminds you that after three months of practice the body changes — not to please, but to honor the temple. “I honor and celebrate my magnificent temple.” 🌟 And then the squats, the frog, the breath of fire warming the belly, and the cow, and the cat, in this ballet of opening and turning inward.
The dragon on the right, then on the left, hands aligned with the outer foot, three minutes of breath of fire. You feel the hips opening, the psoas releasing. And then belly against the mat, head turned to the side, and this total letting go: “on the out-breath, I disappear into the mat”. 🦋
The session closes in half lotus, with the sound of the bell once again, linked to the altered state of consciousness. An anchor. A signal so that later in the day, simply hearing a bell will be enough to find this presence again. ✨
The Postures of the Session
🧘 Suspended Arm Raise — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and rooted into the ground, you breathe in as you slowly raise your hands toward the sky, thumbs hooked behind. You rise onto the balls of your feet, as if suspended by your hands, and the lower back lengthens. Slow breathing through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the entire spine, opens the rib cage, strengthens the calves and the arches of the feet, improves grounding and upright posture.
🧘 Standing Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, you descend head first, hooked thumbs rising up along the back, then the hands touch the floor, knees bent if needed. You push into the floor to straighten the legs.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, calves and lower back, decompresses the spine, promotes circulation toward the head.
🧘 Side Bend — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, one arm rises toward the sky while the other comes to massage the back of the neck, and you lean to the opposite side. The heel lifts to deepen the stretch along the side of the body.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides, the obliques, the quadratus lumborum and the shoulder blade, releases tension in the trapezius and the neck.
🧘 Neck and Torso Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: You imagine a pencil at the tip of your chin and draw large circles with your whole body, slowly, first in one direction, then in the other.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the cervical spine, releases tension in the neck and shoulders, improves spinal flexibility and vestibular balance.
🧘 Posture of Surrender to Life — Anatman movement
The posture: Arms open wide, palms toward the sky, then the hands travel backward and the spine arches back in a gesture of complete opening of the heart.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, stretches the pectorals and shoulders, stimulates the heart chakra, improves deep breathing.
🧘 Pelvic Hula Hoop — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, feet rooted, you let the pelvis turn in circles, small at first and then growing wider, in one direction and then the other.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the hips and pelvis, strengthens the abdominals and obliques, improves digestion and lumbar mobility.
🧘 Deep Squat — Preparatory Malasana
The posture: Back straight, head straight, you lower yourself as if sitting on an invisible chair, then slowly rise again. Imagine holding dumbbells in your hands for grounding.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the quadriceps, glutes and calves, mobilizes the hips and ankles, stimulates circulation in the legs.
🧘 The Frog — Malasana
The posture: Squatting on the floor, feet apart, back straight, head straight, you practice the breath of fire.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips, stretches the groin and adductors, stimulates digestion, decompresses the lower back.
🧘 The Cow — Bitilasana
The posture: On all fours, you breathe in while hollowing the lower back and lifting the head to look ahead.
Benefits for the body: Makes the spine more supple, opens the chest, stretches the belly and the throat.
🧘 The Cat — Marjaryasana
The posture: On all fours, you breathe out while rounding the back, drawing in the belly and tucking the chin toward the chest.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes each vertebra, strengthens the deep abdominal muscles, releases tension in the back, improves the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid.
🧘 The Inverted Mountain — Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog)
The posture: From all fours, you push into your hands and feet to form an inverted V.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the entire posterior chain, strengthens the arms and shoulders, improves blood circulation, soothes the nervous system.
🧘 The Dragon — Utthan Pristhasana (Lizard Lunge)
The posture: From the inverted mountain, one foot comes to rest outside the corresponding hand while the other leg stretches far back. Breath of fire for three minutes.
Benefits for the body: Intensely opens the hips, stretches the psoas and hip flexors, strengthens the thighs, stimulates vital energy through the breath of fire.
🧘 Prone Surrender Posture — Anatman movement
The posture: Lying on your belly, head turned to the side, you release the full weight of your body into the mat.
Benefits for the body: Relaxes the parasympathetic nervous system, releases deep muscular tension, supports recovery and integration.
🧘 Seated Half Lotus — Ardha Padmasana
The posture: Seated, one foot resting on the opposite thigh, back straight, head straight, as if suspended by a thread above the crown of the head.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, grounds the pelvis, supports deep meditation, steadies the mind, aligns the spine.
I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender.
In our practice, we go into the absolute to take care of the relative.
There is nothing to succeed at — it’s really about what is this doing to me right now?
Themes: creation of reality · surrender · universal consciousness · non-self · identification · gratitude · expression · presence
This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’exprimer pleinement et créer sa réalité
